Patient notice · Do not remove from ward

Facility

Pescadero Medical Center (PMC)

Condition

MPS

Status

Evacuation ordered

Admissions

Suspended

Mimetic Perception Syndrome (MPS) has been declared a nationwide health emergency. Patients report seeing and hearing things that no one around them can perceive. Early cases describe it as noise. A door closing on an empty floor. A figure at the end of a corridor that is gone when you look again.

In late stages the condition stops being something a patient merely perceives. It begins to imitate them: their movements, their memories, their voice. Staff are reminded that identifying a patient cannot rely on recognition alone.

Pescadero Medical Center was one of the last hospitals still admitting patients before the evacuation order came through. The building was cleared floor by floor, from the top down. The lower floors were never signed off.

Ten floors. One elevator. Do not trust the ones that look right.